Re: RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED

2005-03-11 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello R, Thursday, March 10, 2005, 12:28:51 AM, you wrote: RM From: Alana Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] RM Subject: Updating my address book I would like to include your contact information in an address book I am creating for myself. Please enter your particulars using the link you see below:

Re: Rule for downwards writing spam

2005-03-11 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Matthew, Thursday, March 10, 2005, 6:19:48 AM, you wrote: MN I've put together the following rule to try and catch the MN read-downwards type spam shown below. Could someone with a decent MN size corpus check it for me please? :-) (or if you see any obvious MN errors or improvements; it

Re: Whitelist collection project

2005-03-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Robert Menschel wrote: And that leads to the second question: what's the best way for an end user to obtain/verify SPF records? I have all the capabilities of XP (shudder) and Cygwin readily available, and can get Linux command-line capabilities via SSH to SARE's server, I believe. Whatever your

Re: Whitelist collection project

2005-03-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Robert Menschel wrote: Hello Daryl, Thursday, March 10, 2005, 5:51:26 PM, you wrote: DCWOS Whatever your favourite way of retrieving DNS records is, will work. DCWOS On Windows you could use nslookup, at a command prompt: ... Thanks. That's a good start. Now, how will I know when a domain has an

RE: RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED

2005-03-11 Thread Greg Allen
I have a fix for that score RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED 0 I don't give big negative points to anyone. To each his own though. -Original Message- From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:29 PM To: R McGlue Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Header Tagging with # instead of *

2005-03-11 Thread Peter Guhl
Hello all Our Mailclient handles * in filter rules as wildcards. Now I tried to change the subject tagging to # (as I have seen it at other spamassassins-results) but this is the comment character (-- --lint fails). Experimenting with escaping resulted in \\#SPAM\\# (using \#SPAM\# in local.cf)

imbalance in bayes numbers

2005-03-11 Thread R McGlue
how much will the following imbalance skew the bayes algorithms (if at all) bash-2.03$ sa-learn --dump magic 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version 0.000 0 54265 0 non-token data: nspam 0.000 0 206342 0 non-token

Issue with bayes and users

2005-03-11 Thread Matt
I'm tyring to use a global bayes database... but when user's try to feed it spam a nd ham with sa-learn it does the following... right now I even have the bayes directory set 777 just to debug.. what am I doing wrong? debug: Score set 0 chosen. debug: running in taint mode? yes debug: Running in

Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread DNI Support Department
Greetings: If we disable network tests by using --local in our start up of spamd, spam assassin averages 0.1 to 0.3 seconds per email to process its rules. If we enable network tests, then spam assassin averages 11 to 15 seconds per email to process its rules. Of all the network tests, we find

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! If we disable network tests by using --local in our start up of spamd, spam assassin averages 0.1 to 0.3 seconds per email to process its rules. If we enable network tests, then spam assassin averages 11 to 15 seconds per email to process its rules. Of all the network tests, we find SURBL

Spam Assassin pattern help for regular expression

2005-03-11 Thread DNI Support Department
Greetings: While it has never been pleasant, we regularly review spam including the HTML source code behind the spam to help us adjust our system-wide spam tagging rules. We've noticed a lot of sick porn spam being left untagged. The tests that raised the score, though not high enough were as

Re: Spam Assassin pattern help for regular expression

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 6:01:58 AM, DNI Department wrote: However, I did notice in the HTML source code a common theme: IMG src=http://yamanekohm.com/9d70188c4e7971b6d3b1e2fa8/Nf3KZuBf0T/file_name; alt=rundowns border=0BR IMG

Re: Spam Assassin pattern help for regular expression

2005-03-11 Thread DNI Support Department
Greetings Jeff: These are live examples; but it appears the porn spam all follow the same hex (?) directory structure after the domain name. Hence, wanting a pattern for that purpose. Thank you. At 09:15 AM 3/11/2005, you wrote: On Friday, March 11, 2005, 6:01:58 AM, DNI Department wrote:

Re: Spam Assassin pattern help for regular expression

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 6:17:21 AM, DNI Department wrote: Greetings Jeff: These are live examples; but it appears the porn spam all follow the same hex (?) directory structure after the domain name. Hence, wanting a pattern for that purpose. I'll let others comment on expressions. How

Re: Spam Assassin pattern help for regular expression

2005-03-11 Thread Duncan Hill
On Friday 11 March 2005 14:17, DNI Support Department typed: Greetings Jeff: These are live examples; but it appears the porn spam all follow the same hex (?) directory structure after the domain name. Hence, wanting a pattern for that purpose. IMG

Re: imbalance in bayes numbers

2005-03-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:40 AM 3/11/2005, R McGlue wrote: how much will the following imbalance skew the bayes algorithms (if at all) Very little.. It will bias the scores very slightly towards higher bayes scores, but the chi-squared combining tends to make this effect not very noticeable unless the training

RE: RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED

2005-03-11 Thread Gray, Richard
I believe that this domain is in fact legitimate and the messages in question are *not* spam. My little sister signed up for it and I got this crap in my inbox as result. Basically she signed up, and puts in a list of everyone who's email address she knows. Birthdayalarms sends out a message to

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 11, 2005, at 8:57 AM, DNI Support Department wrote: Is there a way to enable network tests for just SURBL (we have a local, kept up to date with rsync, copy)? in your preferences file, skip_rbl_checks 1 will turn off the RBL checks but leave SURBL checks on. Vivek Khera, Ph.D.

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 7:48:26 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: On Mar 11, 2005, at 8:57 AM, DNI Support Department wrote: Is there a way to enable network tests for just SURBL (we have a local, kept up to date with rsync, copy)? in your preferences file, skip_rbl_checks 1 will turn off the

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 7:51:45 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: On Friday, March 11, 2005, 7:48:26 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: in your preferences file, skip_rbl_checks 1 will turn off the RBL checks but leave SURBL checks on. Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806 Hmm, but is that a good thing or

Bayes Autolearn Threshold - different scoring?

2005-03-11 Thread greg
Hello all, Let me start out by saying I've been searching for a couple of days on the web on this subject but to no avail, so I would appreciate any help. I have been using SA for more than a year and right now I'm running 3.0.1 on linux (bayes corpus size: nspam = 19482, nham = 3249). My filter

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Stuart Johnston
DNI Support Department wrote: Is there a way to enable network tests for just SURBL (we have a local, kept up to date with rsync, copy)? One possible problem with doing this is that it will switch you to the network score sets giving you lower scores for other tests. Without the other network

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 9:34:15 AM, Stuart Johnston wrote: DNI Support Department wrote: Is there a way to enable network tests for just SURBL (we have a local, kept up to date with rsync, copy)? One possible problem with doing this is that it will switch you to the network score sets

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread DNI Support Department
Greetings: SURBL does not appear to work with network tests totally disabled (i.e. using --local in the spamd startup). No network tests: 0.1 to 0.6 seconds to score emails as spam or ham Approximately 90% accuracy on tagging spam correctly Approximately 2% false

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
Are you running a caching name server locally on the machine? This helps alot in reducing the DNS traffic for RBLs and URI RBL's. I normally process emails in under 2 seconds using couple of RBL's, pyzor and all of the subl.org URI lookups. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 9:57:45 AM, Martin Hepworth wrote: Are you running a caching name server locally on the machine? This helps alot in reducing the DNS traffic for RBLs and URI RBL's. I normally process emails in under 2 seconds using couple of RBL's, pyzor and all of the subl.org

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 9:53:19 AM, DNI Department wrote: Greetings: SURBL does not appear to work with network tests totally disabled (i.e. using --local in the spamd startup). It may be worth noting that disabling network tests at the command line with --local and skip_rbl_checks 1

Re: Spam Assassin pattern help for regular expression

2005-03-11 Thread List Mail User
... Greetings: While it has never been pleasant, we regularly review spam including the HTML source code behind the spam to help us adjust our system-wide spam tagging rules. We've noticed a lot of sick porn spam being left untagged. The tests that raised the score, though not high enough

Local.cf does this look right?

2005-03-11 Thread jimsheffer
Hi everyone- I've been using SpamAssassin on another mail server for about a year. I've installed the new SpamAssassin version on naother mail server, and will be testing this weekend. I've got what I believe is a correct local.cf file set up, but want to make sure with all the new syntax and

Re: Bayes Autolearn Threshold - different scoring?

2005-03-11 Thread Kris Deugau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is this: I'm using squirrelmail, As your only email access? and to keep an eye on false negatives (I define those as real mails that get shuttled to spam, just to keep things clear) I have a 'spam' folder. As anyone that uses sqmail knows, it gets very

Re: Local.cf does this look right?

2005-03-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:27 PM 3/11/2005, jimsheffer wrote: Does anything here stand out as wrong? dns_available test: domain1.tld domain2.tld domain3.tld I do hope that just modified the actual values and you don't literally have domain1.tld in there.. Other than that, it looks fine, but rather than ask us, why

report to spamcop errors. was: error during report: Insecure dependency

2005-03-11 Thread Matias Lopez Bergero
Hi. Wen I report spam via spamassassin (3.0.2) I get this error or warning message: % spamassassin -D -r --mbox spam [...] Insecure dependency in connect while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Socket.pm line 114. I can read that the reports to dcc, pyzor

Re: Bayes Autolearn Threshold - different scoring?

2005-03-11 Thread greg
As your only email access? pretty much, yes. g Try several thousand, as a number of customers have reported to me... oh, I've been there - I'm just trying to avoid going there again. :) Mmm. Dangerous - I've seen FPs get autolearned as spam once or twice. :( I realize that. With my

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread DNI Support Department
Greetings Martin: We have rbldnsd running of a private IP with BIND/DNS forwarding calls to the various SURBL lists to that name server. We are approved to rsync the data from surbl; and that's been working well. Our primary mail server is on a physical server running several network

Re: SA addr tests need to be updated

2005-03-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 3/9/2005 1:38 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: I think the four affected rules are RCVD_HELO_IP_MISMATCH, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO, RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP, RCVD_BY_IP Extending the problem report--it seems that these rules don't fire in some instances. I haven't really checked this out yet, but addresses with a

Re: Bayes Autolearn Threshold - different scoring?

2005-03-11 Thread Greg Daly
Kris, thanks for your help and insight. From what I can see, the settings are in PerMsgStatus.pm, line 308/309 (my version of course). my $required_body_points = 3; my $required_head_points = 3; I'll try changing those around, and update my status to this list in a while. Again, thanks!

Re: SA addr tests need to be updated

2005-03-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric A. Hall writes: On 3/9/2005 1:38 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: I think the four affected rules are RCVD_HELO_IP_MISMATCH, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO, RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP, RCVD_BY_IP Extending the problem report--it seems that these rules don't fire in

Re: SA addr tests need to be updated

2005-03-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:25:06PM -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote: Extending the problem report--it seems that these rules don't fire in some instances. I haven't really checked this out yet, but addresses with a leading octet of 111, 123, and some others at or below ~130 seem to get skipped

Re: SA addr tests need to be updated

2005-03-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 3/11/2005 3:42 PM, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:25:06PM -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote: Extending the problem report--it seems that these rules don't fire in some instances. I haven't really checked this out yet, but addresses with a leading octet of 111, 123, and some